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...game room at Cabot Hall had overstuffed furniture and a plush rug, it could have given a convincing imitation of a drawing room and Schiaperelli last night. The occasion was the picking of 23 models to represent Radcliffe at the Intercollegiate Fashion show. Fifty-five photogenic 'Cliffedwellers appeared for the contest...
...spite of his hospitality, Hiss insisted, Crosley had never paid a nickel for either apartment or the old Ford car. On the contrary, he had touched Hiss for $35 to $40 in loans. Said Hiss: "I never got back a red cent in currency. But he brought me a rug as part payment. I still have...
Petelka's system, like one invented by a Hollander in 1940, uses numbers to identify words in different languages with the same meanings. To do business with an Eskimo, an Iranian rug dealer would trot out his Persian number-dictionary, look up the numbers for the words in his mind, and jot them down. Receiving this coded message, the Eskimo customer would simply consult his Eskimauan number-dictionary...
...receiving visitors. At 10 he dresses and goes into his magnificent 40,000-volume library ("It's open to all, even those many who speak ill of me"). Later, there are simple, fastidious luncheons, served on fine Italian embroidered mats; teas, and candlelit dinners. At all these, a rug thrown over his knees (for he is always cold), Il Bibi holds forth in several languages on art or literature or politics. His cutting opinions make their appointed rounds, at other teas and dinners, for days after...
...Hour Day. In Look's Fifth Avenue GHQ, the two have offices to match their personalities. Mike Cowles, deliberate, slow-spoken, has a sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while...